Laptop shipments fell over 20 percent in April

DigiTimes reports shipments of the global top 5 notebook brands saw a decline of over 20 percent in April, and that all Taiwanese notebook ODMs suffered double-digit percentage drops in April shipments.

Global top-5 notebook brands together suffered a more than 20% on-month shipment drop in April, while top-3 ODMs together had a drop of 14% due to most brand vendors having started to prepare for their next-generation models and some had excess inventory from March, according to Digitimes Research's latest figures.

Among top-tier brands, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Lenovo saw steeper shipment drops than others in the month, all surpassing 20%, while the rest also underperformed. This may cause global notebook shipments in the second quarter to see an on-year drop of more than 15%, but a sequential increase of 3%, the Digitimes Research figures show.

#4591705 Posted on: 05/07/2013 09:44 AM
Laptops are cool, i'd really like one, one that could max say bioshock infinite and i'd be well happy.
Trouble is they're way overpriced cause they outdate real quick, but sure if i ever get my credit inline ever again i'd get a lappy way before any tab (though i do like android phones sure (i'd like to upgrade to s4).
Hope the same doesn't happen with gaming hardware, if nvidia prices the 700 series high enough for example then there's a chance imo.

As far as I know, most people buy laptops/netbooks instead of desktop pc's due to portability, size & weight...

And to heat up their lap, cuz that's all they are good for ^^

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#4591802 Posted on: 05/07/2013 01:32 PM
The 17" Laptop here is basically a portable desktop replacement, ridiculously heavy and bulky. I never use it, because I've hated typing/gaming on laptops ever since uni.

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#4591816 Posted on: 05/07/2013 01:56 PM
I had 2 Dell m6500 workstations which were proper gaming laptops with i7 cpu and quadro gpu in each-12gb ram in each etc.

I sold both even though they were powerful gaming on a laptop is like gaming on a tablet. Its ok for 5 minutes then you realise how **** it is compared to tower based pc with keyboard, Desk, confy chair and nice big screen.

As far as I know, most people buy laptops/netbooks instead of desktop pc's due to portability, size & weight...

No one buys netbooks. Portability/size/weight are all outclassed by tablets and phones, which is what everyone is buying.

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#4591853 Posted on: 05/07/2013 02:52 PM
I have a desktop PC and an iPad 4 so I have absolutely no need for a laptop and likely never will. An iPad 4 is just far more convenient to use for browsing, watching YouTube and reading magazines and if I need access to Windows then I have my desktop PC.

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#4591864 Posted on: 05/07/2013 03:08 PM
^ lol, you have somebody who games on a laptop here. I switched to a laptop as my work requires me to be on the go, so I had little time to use my desktop (its collecting dust right now). It's a 14", so portability isn't an issue, and while I'm not gaming at an ultra high resolution, 720p suffices for the screen.

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#4591961 Posted on: 05/07/2013 05:38 PM
I've always hated laptops. Keyboards are cramped, and the computer itself feels slow. It always seems like they manage to become sh!t after about a year too... I don't know if that's heat or just me.

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#4591981 Posted on: 05/07/2013 06:06 PM

I've always hated laptops. Keyboards are cramped, and the computer itself feels slow. It always seems like they manage to become sh!t after about a year too... I don't know if that's heat or just me.

I would probably attribute it to heat, especially with the 3rd gen Cores on laptops, they run crazy hot (even with a cooler and sitting in an air-conditioned room, I've seen my CPU temps hit 80 degrees, but then again could be due to Turbo Boost). At least my GPU runs cool enough, max I've ever seen it hit is 71 degrees, cooler than my desktop's HD5850 at least.

Also some laptops have pretty decent layouts; for instance some laptops place the hard-drive and the ram sticks away from the CPU and GPU (mine are located right under the track-pad)

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#4591988 Posted on: 05/07/2013 06:12 PM

I've always hated laptops. Keyboards are cramped, and the computer itself feels slow. It always seems like they manage to become sh!t after about a year too... I don't know if that's heat or just me.

They don't have to be slow. You've just used slow ones.

Unfortunately, most laptops come with slow, 5400rpm drives. This is almost always the speed issue.

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#4591997 Posted on: 05/07/2013 06:25 PM

It always seems like they manage to become sh!t after about a year too... I don't know if that's heat or just me.

Probably both.

But really, I had to replace the gunk they call 'thermal paste' over at Sony with Gelid GC Extreme in order to get my laptop around 10C cooler on full load.
Not to mention the factory-applied paste was more than needed, and so kept most of the heat instead of helping to transfer it over to the heatsink.

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#4592000 Posted on: 05/07/2013 06:29 PM
They don't have to be slow. You've just used slow ones.

Unfortunately, most laptops come with slow, 5400rpm drives. This is almost always the speed issue.

You're probably right I just can't justify spending a grand on a laptop when I could get a bitchin desktop for a grand.

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#4592005 Posted on: 05/07/2013 06:35 PM

You're probably right I just can't justify spending a grand on a laptop when I could get a bitchin desktop for a grand.

Yeah, but you don't get to bring that bitchin' desktop anywhere else easily. =b
(also the cables woo!)

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#4592138 Posted on: 05/07/2013 09:51 PM
True, the computer shop i am working in sells a 1/4 volume comparing with what we sold last year in the same period of the year.
More,RMA are higher than ever,crappy laptops and crappy tablets.